Season 2
15 episodes · Sep 20, 1978
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- S2E1
Langrishe Go Down
Sep 20, 1978105mIn the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.
S2E2Fairies
Sep 27, 197866mHow could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?
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Fearless Frank
Oct 4, 1978The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.
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The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked
Oct 11, 1978100m1897: A quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St. Bernard. The man is J. M. Barrie...
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The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man
Oct 18, 1978100m1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan, Barrie is only too happy to respond.
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The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure
Oct 25, 1978100m1913: Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael, 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses, childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.
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Another Day
Nov 22, 1978Abandoned by her husband, Eileen tries to make the best of bringing up her children in a rundown bed-sit. A man called George shows her attention, but others are suspicious of his motives.
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The Vanishing Army
Nov 29, 197875mThe promotion of an ambitious, decorated NCO is put in jeopardy when he marries an unconventional wife and faces the snobbery of his superiors and their families.
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Night People
Dec 6, 1978A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in the early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a travelling salesman and an elderly couple who are going to Gretna Green to get married.
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Renoir, My Father
Dec 13, 1978A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.
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On Giant's Shoulders
Mar 28, 197990mA middle-aged childless couple on a remote farm adopt a Black boy with no limbs due to the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours.
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Stepping Out
Apr 4, 1979A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.
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A Light That Shines
Apr 11, 1979At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.
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In England's Green and Pleasant Land
May 16, 1979Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.